Even if the emperor is exhausted, the landlord's family will not have no surplus food.

All members of the Revival Society know this.

So they are very angry and very familiar with this kind of lie.

"The master's family has a maximum of dozens of people. Including the servant guards, there are more than a hundred people. After collecting so much food for you, you can't even get enough? Do you believe this?"

Xu Tong said angrily: "Does the landlords and gentry have a word that can be believed? None of them! What they ask for is only more rent, thinking of squeezing us into death! Let us not be full or starving, so that we will be their cows and horses obediently, and we will be exhausted and provide them with their lives to spend their lives!"

Xu Tong listed the taxes that the farmers in the Southern Song Dynasty had to pay in public and the taxes that they actually paid, and told the villagers how much tax they paid, and where did these taxes go and who embezzled them.

The villagers looked at each other. The first time they heard about such a thing, they felt confused and puzzled, and felt that everything in the past suddenly became very strange.

After talking about the agricultural tax, Xu Tong talked about the salt tax again.

"Do you find it difficult to eat salt? Do you think it's expensive?"

"Of course!"

When it comes to this, the villagers seem to have more complaints than food, saying that salt is too expensive, too bitter, too poor in quality, and difficult to buy.

Some people also say that they have bought cheaper private salt and the quality is better, so they don’t really want to buy official salt since then.

However, sometimes the government conducts strict inspections, and even needs to go to the household to check for salt. When you see the white salt, you say it is private salt and you need to punish it. Only the bitter, yellowed and slightly moist salt is the official salt.

Official salt and private salt were unexpectedly distinguished in this way!

After hearing this, Xu Tong nodded and said, "Do you know that in Ming Dynasty, the same pound of salt, the highest salt price is sold for twelve cents, and the salt price near the salt production area is often only five or six cents?"

"How many?"

When the villagers heard this, they were all stunned. One or two seemed to have heard of something very incredible, with their faces full of disbelief.

"I can't believe it, right? But this is true. The salt price in Ming Dynasty is so cheap. Do you know why you buy salt so expensive?"

Xu Tong smiled and said, "Ninety percent of the price of a pound of salt is tax, or even more than ninety percent, all of it is tax, because everyone has to eat salt. By relying on the salt tax, the top people in the court have obtained extremely rich money, spend their money, and do whatever they want!

On the other hand, the farmers in Ming Dynasty would not worry about eating salt at all. Buying salt is common. Not only is it cheap, but the quality is good. I stayed in many places in Song Dynasty and felt that the taste was too light and I couldn’t taste the salt. In Ming Dynasty, there was no such situation. I even felt that the taste was too strong for the Ming Dynasty.”

When the villagers listened to these things that were beyond their imagination, they were confused and confused, and they could not help but imagine.

Xu Tong would explain that His Majesty the Emperor of the Kingdom sent his subordinates to various places to establish farmers' associations, not only distributing land to farmers, but also configuring houses and tools to farmers, and trying to allocate livestock for production so that farmers can quickly resume production.

It doesn’t count if the resumption of production is not counted. The Emperor of Ming Dynasty would also ask the instructors of the peasant association to teach everyone to recognize words for free. Many farmers learn to recognize words with the instructors during the gaps in production, from illiterate to semi-illiterate, and then get rid of blindness from semi-illiterate.

Officials in the Ming Dynasty never dared to beat and scold their subordinates and the people because this was strictly prohibited. If such a thing happened, local judicial officials would teach him how to be a human being, and he would lose his position and power, or even lose his freedom.

His Majesty the Emperor of Ming Dynasty would also send special purchasers to the countryside to purchase grain and other crops from farmers, and they all gave clean copper coins. After the purchase was completed, the tax collectors would pay taxes with copper coins, without paying food or loss fees.

Nowadays, ordinary people in many places in the Ming Dynasty can eat two meals a day, and they all have dry meals, which can fill their stomachs and not hungry. Although it is difficult to eat delicious side dishes or oil and water, two dry meals can definitely be eaten.

His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty also sent people to build water conservancy projects in various places. Many water conservancy projects were repaired or established from scratch. It became much easier for ordinary people to irrigate land. They didn't have to go far, but traveled five or six miles to carry water to irrigate the fields.

There are countless such things.

Xu Tong chose the benefits after the changes in the court policy that ordinary people could truly enjoy, and the life that they lived many times easier than before after being liberated.

They are no longer bent over the burden of life, they can see a smile on their faces and have a desire for the future in their eyes.

With Xu Tong's account, these villagers who lived in the large net compiled by the Southern Song Dynasty court seemed to have some different ideas.

Xu Tong described Ming Kingdom as a shining lighthouse, allowing everyone to know that Ming Kingdom is there, everything that should be there, across the Yangtze River, someone is living a life that is much happier and more hopeful than them.

This will inevitably bring some changes to the stagnant situation of these farmers.

When Zhao Yucheng and his 108 comrades tried their best to develop the peasant army in Luoxiao Mountain, the Southern Song Dynasty was not unresponsive.

Because the peasant army launched an uprising in Jizhou, destroying the defenses of four counties in a row, killing hundreds of officials, and even the Jizhou magistrates were killed. Jizhou was in chaos, and this change caused a large-scale chain reaction.

Zhao Yucheng decisively led the peasant army south and westward to enter the Luoxiao Mountain Management Base, but Jizhou, which had destroyed the ruling order, did not calm down because of this.

The farmers who did not catch up with the first wave of rebellion did not give up.

It was not too late to know the news of someone’s rebellion at the beginning, and it was known at the end of April.

They immediately sent people to investigate and learned that there was a rebellion on the west road of Jiangnan, sweeping over four counties, but the rebellious peasant army quickly left the rebellion site, and it is said that they are heading south, and the specific direction is unknown.

What's wrong?

A rebellious army killed so many officials, destroyed four counties, and disappeared. What is this?

It is necessary to find out what is going on!

Officials of Longxing Prefecture continued to send people to follow them, and then went to inspect the four damaged counties and found a mess. They were very annoyed. Then they learned that the rebels seemed to have escaped into the mountains and disappeared.

Luoxiao Mountain has a vast area, a very complex terrain and fragmented. It is really difficult to figure out what happened inside, where those rebels are.

Since they did not have further military operations, there was no need to summon a large army. What was placed in front of them was a mess, and people were urgently needed to deal with it and wipe their butts. Therefore, Longxing Prefecture only dispatched some small troops and small officials to wipe their butts, stationed in four counties swept by the peasant army.

Next, apart from sending people to Luoxiao Mountain to inquire about the news, they did not take any further action.

Someone asked the officials on Jiangnan West Road whether to tell Lin'an the news, and the suggestion was also rejected.

Because the news that the Ming army went south to threaten Lin'an reached these places, the Ming army won a great victory, the Song army was defeated like a mountain, and the Song local governments were also very pessimistic about this war, and some people were even prepared to die if Lin'an was captured.

At that time, they all felt that Lin'an could not be saved, so how could they have the time to deal with local [small-scale] rebellion?

Their main energy is also focused on the Ming and Song war, so they will not send messages to Lin'an for the time being. They will digest the rebellion internally, maintain local stability, and do not continue to cause trouble.

What should be done next is to wait until the situation of the Ming and Song wars is clear.

If the court is still there, then the news will be passed on to Lin'an, and then whether to send troops to suppress bandits or appease them, the court will definitely pay for it, and everyone will still make it.

If the court is gone and the Ming army does the same thing as the Jin army back then, then where will the rebellion be concerned?

This group of officials thought so, and they did not respond more to the rebellion, but continued to drag it until mid-May.

The second wave of peasant uprisings broke out after the Revival Society uprising.
Chapter completed!